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by the exhibitor in the flesh. The records of the occurrence 

 of this species in the British Islands were as follows : — (1) ? , 

 near Brighton^ 22. xi. 1869 (c/. Borrer, ' Birds of Sussex/ 

 p. 113); (2) <^, Woodchurch, Kent, 27. i. 1902; (3) ?, 

 Woodchurch, 28. i. 1902 [N. F. Ticehurst, Bull. B. O. C. xii. 

 no. Ixxxvi. p. 50 (1902)]; (J, Woodchurch, 22. iii. 1902 

 [N. F. Ticehurst, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. no. xci. p. 14 (1902)]. 

 Other occurrences in the Western Palsearctic area were given 

 in Dr. Hartert's '^Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna/ 

 Heft 2, p. 211 (1904). 



The specimens exhibited were in the collection of Mr. J. 

 B. Nichols. 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited eggs of various species of 

 birds and read the following notes : — 



"TuRDus NAUMANNi, Temm. 



"In ^The Ibis' (1903, p. 88, pi. iii. figs. 1, 2,3, 6) I 

 described and figured four eggs of this species obtained 

 by Mr. Leyborne Popham on the Yenesei Kiver, Siberia, 

 in 1900, with the female bird, which was certainly Turdus 

 naumanni ; but the female obtained with another clutch was 

 a hybrid between Turdus naumanni and T. duhius, Bechst. 

 Mr. Buturlin pointed out to me that on the Yenesei the 

 Thrushes hybridise so freely that it would be aflvisable to 

 procure eggs from some locality where hybrids were not 

 likely to occur, and he has now sent me four eggs, which 

 are certainly those of the true Turdus naumanni, obtained on 

 the Lena on the 12th of June, 1907. With them I also 

 exhibit one of the four eggs obtained by Mr. Popham on 

 the Yenesei, which, as will be seen, differs, though not much, 

 from those from the Lena. The nest, which I also exhibit, 

 is very solidly built of clay and straws, like that of a Red- 

 wing, and is almost as hard as if it were made of stone. 



" Caprimulgus .egyptius, Licht. 



" A clutch of two eggs collected in Seistan, Persia, on 

 the 15th of June, 1896, by Mr. Zarudny, sent to me by 

 Professor Bianchi, of the Imperial Zoological Museum of 

 St. Petersburg. 



